The FTC today released their annual summary of all consumer complaints they receive and yet again identity theft leads the pack. Over the past year, the FTC received 290,056 complaints regarding identity theft, about 85,000 more than the next highest category. I would point out how many years in a [ More ... ]Read More

Washington, D.C. – A new poll released today by the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) found that Internet users are highly concerned about the theft of personal and financial information and believe strongly that the federal government should do more to protect them. This [ More ... ]Read More

Washington – More steps to reform NSA surveillance are on the table today as the White House has released the report it received from the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies. The Computer & Communications Industry Association, which has advocated for [ More ... ]Read More

Google today released its latest transparency report, covering the first half of 2013. The number of requests went up fairly dramatically over the second half of 2012, which only emphasizes the importance of stronger and simpler rules of the road in the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. We [ More ... ]Read More

Late last week, CCIA submitted a set of comments to the President's Review Group on Intelligence Collection and Communications Technologies in response to their call for feedback on September 4th. This group was formed by the President in August and tasked with examining our current surveillance [ More ... ]Read More

Today will see the relaunch of VanishingRights.com, a site that calls on Congress to reform the Electronic Communications Privacy Act - also known as ECPA. CCIA has been engaged in the fight to reform ECPA for many years, and we have worked alongside the organizations behind VanishingRights for [ More ... ]Read More

CCIA congratulates Facebook on the release yesterday of their first transparency report. The report, which lists the numbers of government requests for information about Facebook users, will serve to increase users’ trust. Reports such as these have become popular among web companies that [ More ... ]Read More

CCIA appreciates the opportunity to have participated in the multistakeholder process convened by the Administration, and supports closing debate on this Code of Conduct today for mobile transparency. While any such process is by no means perfect, and there are provisions that we might have [ More ... ]Read More

A document leaked to the news media indicates government agencies requested records about every Verizon customer over at least a three- month period using a controversial power sanctified by secret court order. The order demanded that Verizon turn over metadata that includes what phone number was [ More ... ]Read More

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